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Dominic,

The hyphen isn't my favorite separator device for phone numbers. But, it isn't as bad as the parentheses. I agree that the parens should center on the lining figures, but I'm not crazy about them sticking out above and below the flow of the adjacent characters with baseline shift alone. In thinking about how I usually set phone numbers, it is generally with spaces or periods throughout. Second choice is hyphens throughout.

I don't know the convention in New Zealand, but in the States, the most common sequence is parens around the area code followed by a space, then a hyphen between the exchange and the 4-digit local number: (212) 555-1234. Yes, like UPC codes, legal boilerplate, and full Web addresses, it's ugly.

Neil